Aflightcancellationdeadlinetrackerbuiltforrefunds

StayHawk Pro reads your airline confirmation, extracts the refund window and change-fee dates, and aims to alert you 7 days, 3 days, and 24 hours before each deadline closes.

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Available on the Pro plan — free covers hotels only.

The Concept

Every airline ticket has more than one deadline

A flight cancellation deadline tracker watches the fixed dates on your ticket: the 24-hour DOT free-cancellation window for US domestic flights, the fare-class refund cutoff, the date change fees escalate, and any e-voucher expiry. Miss the refund window by one day and you forfeit cash. Miss the change-fee tier and the same itinerary moves from a $0 change to a $200 change.

StayHawk Pro extracts these dates from your forwarded confirmation email and queues alerts ahead of each one. We track deadlines on flights, trains, car rentals, and activities — the same dashboard, the same alert tiers. Flight prices are not monitored; only deadlines are tracked.

Deadlines only on flights. StayHawk does not monitor airfare for cheaper rebooking the way it does hotels — flight inventory is too volatile and most fares are non-refundable anyway.

Airplane flying past an hourglass and a notification bell
Forwarded airline email parsed into a deadline alert

Smart Monitoring

A flight cancellation deadline tracker built around your fare class

  • Three alert tiers per deadline: 7 days out, 3 days out, and 24 hours before close — staggered so a missed first ping isn't the last warning
  • Refund deadlines and change-fee escalation dates are extracted separately — a basic fare with no refund still surfaces its $0 → $75 → $200 change-fee tiers
  • Multi-type bookings in one portfolio: flights, trains, car rentals, and activities show alongside your hotel deadlines, sorted by urgency
  • Email plus push delivery, with manual override on any extracted date if our parser missed a clause buried in the fare rules

Other trackers count days. StayHawk surfaces the deadline that actually costs you money.

Step-by-Step

What tracking a flight deadline looks like without StayHawk

1

Open the airline confirmation email, scroll past the marketing, and find the fare rules block buried below the seat selection

2

Search the airline's website for the fare class policy page — basic economy, main cabin, flexible — to confirm the refund and change-fee windows

3

Add three or four calendar reminders by hand: the 24-hour DOT window, the refund cutoff, each change-fee escalation date, the e-voucher expiry

4

Recheck within 24 hours of any reminder because airlines occasionally reissue tickets with shifted dates, especially after schedule changes

5

Scramble on the deadline day to call the airline or use the manage-booking page before the window closes at midnight in the carrier's home timezone

Doing it manually

Every ticket gets its own pile of calendar reminders, and a schedule change quietly invalidates half of them. Many travelers miss at least one fare-class deadline per year. Refund eligibility depends on your fare class and the airline’s policy at time of cancellation.

With StayHawk Pro

Forward the confirmation once. We extract the refund and change-fee deadlines, queue three alert tiers per deadline, and flag anything our parser couldn’t read so you can edit it before the first ping.

Coverage

Flight cancellation deadlines across 20+ airlines

North America

American AirlinesDeltaUnitedSouthwestJetBlueAlaska AirlinesAir CanadaWestJet

Europe

LufthansaAir FranceKLMBritish AirwaysRyanairEasyJetVuelingIberia

Middle East / Asia / Other

EmiratesQatar AirwaysSingapore AirlinesANAJALCathay PacificQantas

Coverage is driven by extraction success on the carrier’s confirmation email format — we’ll surface what we find and flag what’s unclear. If your airline isn’t listed, you can still add the deadline manually.

Quick Reference

Flight cancellation deadline tracker — the fine print

Plan tierPro — flights aren't on the Free plan
Extraction sourceForwarded airline confirmation email
Alert tiers7 days, 3 days, and 24 hours before the deadline closes
Multi-type scopeFlights, trains, car rentals, and activities — same dashboard, same alerts
Refund vs change-fee distinctionWe extract refund deadlines AND change-fee escalation dates
Manual overrideYou can edit any deadline if our parser missed something

Flight prices are not monitored — only refund and change-fee deadlines are tracked. Alert delivery is approximate and depends on email and push processing.

3 alert tiers
per deadline: 7 days, 3 days, and 24 hours out
20+
airlines parsed from forwarded confirmations
Multi-region
coverage across North America, Europe, and Asia

FAQ

Common questions about the flight cancellation deadline tracker

A flight cancellation deadline tracker is a tool that watches the fixed dates on your airline ticket — the 24-hour DOT free-cancellation window, the fare-class refund cutoff, change-fee escalation dates, and e-voucher expiry — and alerts you before each one closes. StayHawk Pro extracts those dates from your forwarded confirmation email and queues three alert tiers per deadline. Flight prices are not monitored; only deadlines are tracked.
Forward your airline confirmation to your personal StayHawk inbox. We parse the email, extract the refund and change-fee dates from the fare rules, and create deadline records in your portfolio. We then queue three alerts per deadline: 7 days out, 3 days out, and 24 hours before the window closes. Extraction depends on email format — if our parser misses something, we flag it and let you edit the deadline manually.
StayHawk parses confirmations from 20+ airlines across three regions. North America: American Airlines, Delta, United, Southwest, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines, Air Canada, WestJet. Europe: Lufthansa, Air France, KLM, British Airways, Ryanair, EasyJet, Vueling, Iberia. Middle East and Asia: Emirates, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, ANA, JAL, Cathay Pacific, Qantas. If your carrier isn't in the list, you can still add the deadline manually.
No. Flight prices are not monitored — the flight cancellation deadline tracker only tracks deadlines. Airfare inventory shifts faster than the daily-check cadence we use for hotels, and most economy fares are non-refundable anyway, so a price-drop alert wouldn't help. If you want price monitoring with a rebooking playbook, that's the hotel feature.
Pro. Flights aren't on the Free plan — the Free plan covers cancellation deadline tracking on hotels only. Multi-type bookings (flights, trains, car rentals, activities) are a Pro feature. You can upgrade at any time and downgrade whenever you want.
The US Department of Transportation requires airlines selling tickets for flights to or from US airports to either allow a free 24-hour hold on a quoted fare or allow a free cancellation for a full refund within 24 hours of booking, provided the ticket was bought at least seven days before departure. Where extracted successfully, StayHawk surfaces this 24-hour window from US domestic confirmations and queues an alert before it closes. Refund eligibility still depends on the airline's policy at the time of cancellation.
You get an email and a push notification with the deadline, the booking details, and a direct link to your StayHawk portfolio entry. From there you can open the airline's manage-booking page, see your current fare class and refund eligibility, and decide whether to cancel, change, or do nothing. Alert delivery is approximate and depends on email and push processing.
Extraction depends on email format — we'll surface what we find and flag what's unclear. The major carriers' confirmation templates are stable, so refund deadlines and change-fee dates parse reliably. Promotional fares, codeshare itineraries, and schedule changes occasionally rewrite the fare rules in ways our parser can miss. You can edit any deadline manually if our parser missed something.

Refund eligibility depends on your fare class and the airline’s policy at the time of cancellation. StayHawk aims to extract refund and change-fee deadlines from your forwarded confirmation but does not guarantee any specific outcome. Flight prices are not monitored. Alert delivery is approximate and depends on email and push processing.

Related

Other deadlines we track

Train ticket exchange and refund deadlines

Refund and exchange windows for SNCF, Eurostar, Trenitalia, and Deutsche Bahn.

Car rental cancellation deadlines

Free-cancellation deadlines pulled from Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, and Sixt confirmations.

Activity cancellation deadlines

Free-cancellation deadlines for Viator, GetYourGuide, Klook, and Tiqets.

Stop chasing fare rules. Start tracking deadlines.

Forward your next airline confirmation to StayHawk. We’ll pull out the refund window and the change-fee dates — and ping you before each one closes.

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